Rss feed .. Ammon News ..Worldhttp://en.ammonnews.net/Details.aspx?sectionid=9The latest headlines and articles from Ammon News5Lethal pipeline blast sharpens focus on Mexico fuel theft planhttp://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleno=39877Sun, 20 Jan 2019 04:58:06 GMTAMMONNEWS - A blast at a gasoline pipeline in Mexico that killed at least 73 people has put renewed attention on the government’s strategy to stop fuel theft, with some relatives saying fuel shortages stemming from the plan led people to risk their lives.<br/><br/>Fuel thieves punctured the Tula-Tuxpan piUS-led coalition hits mosque used by ISIS in Syriahttp://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleno=39863Sat, 19 Jan 2019 10:36:26 GMTAMMONNEWS - The US-led coalition fighting ISIS in Syria destroyed a command center in a mosque in the war-torn country on Thursday, officials said.<br/><br/>The strike is another indication that ISIS has not been “defeated” in Syria, as Trump claimed last month when he ordered the withdrawal of US forces Erdogan: Turkey to set up Syria ‘security zone’ suggested by Trumphttp://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleno=39841Tue, 15 Jan 2019 05:09:03 GMTAMMONNEWS - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that Ankara would set up a “security zone” in northern Syria suggested by US President Donald Trump.<br/><br/>Erdogan said he held a “quite positive” telephone conversation with Trump late on Monday where he reaffirmed that “a 20-mile (30 kilPompeo says Trump’s Turkey threat won’t alter Syria troop withdrawalhttp://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleno=39833Mon, 14 Jan 2019 05:15:04 GMTAMMONNEWS - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday that President Donald Trump’s threat to devastate Turkey economically should it attack a Washington-backed Kurdish militia in Syria would not change plans to withdraw troops from that country.<br/><br/>The top US diplomat told reporters in RiyadNetanyahu confirms weekend strike by Israel on Iran target in Syriahttp://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleno=39826Sun, 13 Jan 2019 04:52:06 GMTAMMONNEWS - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel had at the weekend carried out an air strike on Iranian weapons in Syria, a rare public confirmation of such attacks.<br/><br/>“Just in the last 36 hours the air force attacked Iranian warehouses containing Iranian weapons in the DamascReport says Hamas leader’s trip to Moscow cancelledhttp://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleno=39815Thu, 10 Jan 2019 07:45:52 GMTAMMONNEWS - A trip to Moscow next week by the leader of Palestinian movement Hamas has been cancelled,<br/><br/>Interfax news agency quoted the ambassador for the Palestinian Authority to Russia as saying on Thursday.<br/><br/>The Hamas leader had been expected to hold talks with Russian Foreign Minister SergeiTurkey to ask US to hand over military bases in Syriahttp://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleno=39803Tue, 08 Jan 2019 07:22:19 GMTAMMONNEWS - Turkey was expected to ask US officials either to hand over its military bases in Syria to Ankara or to destroy them, the newspaper Hurriyet reported, a request that could further complicate discussions over the US withdrawal from Syria.<br/><br/>The request was expected to come in talks on TuGriffiths departs Sanaa, fails to convince Houthis to surrender Hodediahhttp://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleno=39796Mon, 07 Jan 2019 08:34:16 GMTAMMONNEWS - The United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths two-day efforts to convince the Houthis to withdraw its militias from Hodeidah has not yielded results on the ground on Sunday by the time he left the country.<br/><br/>Griffiths, who brokered the breakthrough last month in Sweden, retEgyptian officer killed while defusing bomb near eastern Cairo churchhttp://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleno=39786Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:58:51 GMTAMMONNEWS - An Egyptian explosives expert has been killed while he was attempting to defuse a bomb near a church in Cairo, Al Arabiya’s correspondent reports.<br/><br/>“There were suspicions of an unattended package near the church in Nasr city after which a bomb squad was immediately deployed and attemptPompeo: US seeks to ensure ‘Turks don’t slaughter the Kurds’ in Syriahttp://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleno=39780Thu, 03 Jan 2019 17:18:40 GMTAMMONNEWS - The United States is speaking to Turkey to ensure it does not “slaughter” Kurds in Syria as US troops leave, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday.<br/><br/>Pompeo referenced the growing fears for US-allied Kurdish fighters in northern Syria as he defended President Donald Trump’s abrup